Patents by Inventor Daniel J. Rowan

Daniel J. Rowan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12211317
    Abstract: The present disclosure relate to highlighting audience members with reactions to a presenter of an online meeting. Unlike physical, fact-to-face meeting that enables spontaneous interactions among the presenter and the audiences that are collocated with the presenter, presenting materials during an online meeting raises an issue of the present not being able to see real-time reactions or feedback by the audience members. The present disclosure addresses the issue by dynamically determining one or more audience members who indicate reactions during the online meeting or presentation and displaying faces of the one or more audience members under spotlight to the presenter. The presenter sees faces of the audience members with reactions during the online presentation and responds to the audience members and keep the audience engaged. The spotlight audience server analyzes video frames and determines types of reactions of the audience members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Javier Hernandez Rivera, Daniel J. McDuff, Jin A. Suh, Kael R. Rowan, Mary P. Czerwinski, Prasanth Murali, Mohammad Akram
  • Patent number: 4064987
    Abstract: A conveyor system for handling containers, particularly non-rigid bottles or jars, wherein the containers are gripped firmly but resiliently, to minimize deformation, and are conveyed, without friction or danger of marring, to a delivery zone where they can be delivered individually or in groups. The container gripping means includes holding jaws carried by complementary endless belts or chains, and inflatable pressure adjusting air bags for urging the holding jaws into engagement with the containers, holding them precisely spaced for subsequent operations and releasing them accurately on signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1977
    Inventor: Daniel J. Rowan